Three events in the service of empirical
linguistics will take place at UiT, the Arctic
University of Norway in June 2014.

On June 18, we will launch the TROLLing
website, a searchable archive of linguistic
data and statistical code designed to support
empirical research on languages worldwide.

On June 19, we will hold a workshop on the
grammatical profiles of verbs based on corpus
studies, with emphasis on morphological marking
of verbal categories and the behavior of verbs
(see the call for submissions attached).

On June 20-21, we will host the Kognitivt
sommerseminar, the conference of the Norwegian
Cognitive Linguistics Association (NORKOG). The
working language for this conference is
Norwegian (plus other Scandinavian
languages).

In order to plan appropriately, we ask everyone
who plans to attend the Verb Profiling Workshop
to register. There is no registration fee, but
we ask all comers to fill out a registration
form so that we can plan appropriately.

Deadline for registration: May 20, 2014

Note: Be sure to book your flights and hotel
early. Tromsø is a popular destination during
the midnight sun season.

Call for Papers:

Verb Profiling Workshop

“A grammatical profile is the relative
frequency distribution of the inflected forms
of a word in a corpus” (Janda and Lyashevskaya
(2011) Cognitive Linguistics 22(4)).

The Verb Profiling Workshop addresses the
grammatical profiles of verbs and their
relationship to categories such as tense,
aspect, and mood. One of the projects presented
at this workshop focuses on the grammatical
profiles of verbs in four languages that differ
in their morphological marking of aspect and
Aktionsart on verbs: Czech (which marks
aspect), North Saami (which marks Aktionsart),
Russian (which marks both), and Norwegian
(which marks neither). The four languages
project is part of the “Birds & Beasts”
project supported by the Norwegian Research
Council and involves colleagues connected to
the Russian National Corpus, the Czech National
Corpus, and Giellatekno.

In addition to the four languages project, we
are soliciting presentations from other
researchers working on the behavior of verbs,
preferably also using grammatical profiling or
similar measures. Please send an abstract (max
500 words) to: grammatical.profilesgmail.com.

Deadline for abstracts: February 15, 2014
Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2014